29 ideas
6161 | Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding [Rowlands] |
6163 | If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected [Rowlands] |
6155 | Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties [Rowlands] |
12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
16065 | Constitution is identity (being in the same place), or it isn't (having different possibilities) [Wasserman] |
16067 | Constitution is not identity, because it is an asymmetric dependence relation [Wasserman] |
16069 | There are three main objections to seeing constitution as different from identity [Wasserman] |
16068 | The weight of a wall is not the weight of its parts, since that would involve double-counting [Wasserman] |
6154 | It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack [Rowlands] |
16074 | Relative identity may reject transitivity, but that suggests that it isn't about 'identity' [Wasserman] |
6157 | Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds [Rowlands] |
6159 | Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world [Rowlands] |
12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
6152 | Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware [Rowlands] |
6173 | Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds [Rowlands] |
6174 | If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do [Rowlands] |
12760 | Something rather like souls (though not intelligent) could be found everywhere [Leibniz] |
6158 | Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars [Rowlands] |
6168 | The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence [Rowlands] |
6167 | Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states [Rowlands] |
6177 | Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people [Rowlands] |
12759 | There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz] |
6156 | The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space [Rowlands] |
12718 | Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz] |
6170 | Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79 [Rowlands] |
11854 | If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz] |
12758 | It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz] |
6178 | It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity [Rowlands] |
19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |